Metaphor Middle School Poems

in the surreal solemnity of nature

	a solemn ant colony
	passes in a funeral-like
	procession
	carrying bits of crumbs
	and one of their own…

	a lone ballooning spider
	ceases his kiting
	and hovers...

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Abandoned Trunks And The Children  
		There laid the empty gray trunk;
		never to hold a thing again.
		There in the blood-wet soil,
		a sadden decaying lump.
 ...

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FYI

Hate is of the mind…
Love—of the womb of the heart—
The heart can’t birth hate:-...

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Today my flowing pen
Streams screaming words
Cascading to hungry eyes
And thirsty ears of waves
Of the oceans of minds
Waiting to be sailed upon
In the winds of whatever
The...

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The Man…The Spirit

His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.

HIM

Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:- 
Martin Luther King.


THE...

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(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)

There she stood on the edge 
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.

As I cautiously approached her,
I softly...

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In the chilling waning Fall-waxing-Winter
evening,
I cautiously step out into graveyard-like
silence—
The earlier day and coming night seems
deceiving:-
A lone soaring avian appears to own the sky’s
 parlance.

Would...

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(Apropos Of Our Virtuous Queens)

Sitting here in the beauty
of the blackness of night
my mind and its spirit
are spiritually
and geo-physically drawn
up into the reflections
of the full...

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BITTERSWEET… 

In bitter sorrow,
We still sing Amazing Grace: 
Faith knows no souring…...

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Bumblebees buzzing...
Erie irritating sounds:
“Ouch”! bees also sting...

Confined to his bowl,
A fish, seemingly talking,
Jumps! wiggling free...

Penguins standing proud,
Poised as if to soon take flight,
Flap their wings…then…splash!...

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Justice
               Still sits waiting
      Little has...

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Counting snakes at stake.
Bringing a skate
to roll straight out
of my mind

Counting doubts and thoughts.
I wanna see it let out.
Living the experience
of being out of place

Vivid...

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It began by taking my heart
attacking my immunity
warming me up as hot as fever
leaving it broken in disunity.

It traveled on, to my mind
destroying on its...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Justice will be swift;
Injustice does not fear her,
Her fleeing is quick....

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